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Author : Thomas Hardy
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.FS/5 ( download)
Download or read book Desperate Remedies written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Scull
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674265106
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)
Download or read book Desperate Remedies written by Andrew Scull and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping history of American psychiatry--from the mental hospital to the brain lab--that reveals the devastating treatments doctors have inflicted on their patients (especially women) in the name of science and questions our massive reliance on meds. For more than two hundred years, disturbances of the mind--the sorts of things that were once called "madness"--have been studied and treated by the medical profession. Mental illness, some insist, is a disease like any other, whose origins can be identified and from which one can be cured. But is this true? In this masterful account of America's quest to understand and treat everything from anxiety to psychosis, one of the most provocative thinkers writing about psychiatry today sheds light on its tumultuous past. Desperate Remedies brings together a galaxy of mind doctors working in and out of institutional settings: psychologists and psychoanalysts, neuroscientists, and cognitive behavioral therapists, social reformers and advocates of mental hygiene, as well as patients and their families desperate for relief. Andrew Scull begins with the birth of the asylum in the reformist zeal of the 1830s and carries us through to the latest drug trials and genetic studies. He carefully reconstructs the rise and fall of state-run mental hospitals to explain why so many of the mentally ill are now on the street and why so many of those whose bodies were experimented on were women. In his compelling closing chapters, he reveals how drug companies expanded their reach to treat a growing catalog of ills, leading to an epidemic of over-prescribing while deliberately concealing debilitating side effects. Carefully researched and compulsively readable, Desperate Remedies is a definitive account of America's long battle with mental illness that challenges us to rethink our deepest assumptions about who we are and how we think and feel.
Author : Les Conrad
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
Download or read book Desperate Remedies written by Les Conrad and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Hardy
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Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)
Download or read book Desperate Remedies Annotated written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-04 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desperate Remedies is the second novel by Thomas Hardy, albeit the first to be published. It was released anonymously by Tinsley Brothers in 1871.Described by Hardy as a tale of "mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity", his first published novel violated the literary decorum of its day with blackmail, murder, and romance. It relates the story of Cytherea, a maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer Miss Aldclyffe, and the man she loves, Edward Springrove. Upon discovering that Edward is already engaged, Cytherea comes under the influence of Miss Aldclyffe's fascinating, manipulative steward, Manston.
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849633128
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)
Download or read book Desperate Remedies written by Thomas Hardy and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Novel By the author of " Far from the Madding Crowd," "A Pair of Blue Eyes," etc. "A valuable accession tothe ranks of modern novel writing authors. . . Not only quick observations and sparkling humor, and true moral instinct, but a delicate and subtle analysis of varieties of character and moods of feeling, a poet's sympathy with human passion, and an artist's eye for every aspect of nature."— London Spectator "A remarkable story. . . . The plot is worked out with abundant skill, but the essence of the book is precisely what it ought to be, namely, the evolution of character. . . His deserts are of no ordinary kind." — London Saturday Review. "The characters of the story are often exceedingly good. The construction of tile story is very curious. "-London Athenaeum.
Author : Thomas Morris
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524743704
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth written by Thomas Morris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Delightfully horrifying."--Popular Science This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a unique portrait of a bygone era in all its jaw-dropping weirdness. A puzzling series of dental explosions beginning in the nineteenth century is just one of many strange tales that have long lain undiscovered in the pages of old medical journals. Award-winning medical historian Thomas Morris delivers one of the most remarkable, cringe-inducing collections of stories ever assembled. Witness Mysterious Illnesses (such as the Rhode Island woman who peed through her nose), Horrifying Operations (1781: A French soldier in India operates on his own bladder stone), Tall Tales (like the "amphibious infant" of Chicago, a baby that could apparently swim underwater for half an hour), Unfortunate Predicaments (such as that of the boy who honked like a goose after inhaling a bird's larynx), and a plethora of other marvels. Beyond a series of anecdotes, these painfully amusing stories reveal a great deal about the evolution of modern medicine. Some show the medical profession hopeless in the face of ailments that today would be quickly banished by modern drugs; but others are heartening tales of recovery against the odds, patients saved from death by the devotion or ingenuity of a conscientious doctor. However embarrassing the ailment or ludicrous the treatment, every case in The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth tells us something about the knowledge (and ignorance) of an earlier age, along with the sheer resilience of human life.
Author : Andrew Scull
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691166153
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book Madness in Civilization written by Andrew Scull and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2015.
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Publisher : Reprint Services Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1422740560
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)
Download or read book Works Of Thomas Hardy Volume 15 - Desperate Remedies (Paperbound) written by and published by Reprint Services Corporation. This book was released on with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Scull
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019969298X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hysteria written by Andrew Scull and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of hysteria is a curious one, for it persists as an illness for centuries before disappearing. Andrew Scull gives a fascinating account of this socially constructed disease that came to be strongly associated with women, showing the shifts in social, cultural, and medical perceptions through history.
Author : Thomas Hardy
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Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Works of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse: Desperate remedies. v. 16. The hand of Ethelberta. v. 17. A Laodicean. IV. Mixed novels: v. 18. A changed man, The waiting supper and other tales: concluding with the Romantic adventures of a milk maid written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
